Case Study: Research Policy Interface Thematic Group

Irish Fisheries Management

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine/collections/fisheries-policy-quota-management/

Academics and Institutional Affiliation:

Dr Ruth Brennan

Trinity College Dublin and European Parliament

Evidence of policy outcome referencing the role of the research:

No

Research undertaken that informed or underpinned the policy outcome:

• POLICY REPORT: Managing for Diversity: keeping everyone afloat in Irish fisheries. Note Policy Recommendation 12 on QMAC minutes.

• PAPER: Making space for plural ontologies in fisheries governance: Ireland’s disobedient offshore islands

• PAPER: Fishing For Survival in the ‘Blue Economy’–Found Poems from the Irish Islands

• ·POLICY BRIEF: Critical reflections on 21 November 2019 Dáil Éireann Debate on the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017

• Opening Statement to Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine re: the Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017

• ANIMATION: Managing for Diversity: keeping everyone afloat in Irish fisheries

• Project website: CO-SUSTAIN. Collaborative Sustainable Innovation: co-designing small-scale fisheries governance approaches

Key learnings for you from this research-policy bridging process

Trying to bring about change in Irish fisheries governance to make it more equitable and inclusive for the small-scale fishing sector is a slow process. Change is impeded by a fisheries governance system constructed to reflect the realities of large-scale vessels, and that does not reflect the realities and heterogeneity of the small-scale vessels that form 87.5% of the Irish fleet. A policy that is well-intentioned (in this case, the policy on managing fishing opportunities as a public resource) does not necessarily translate into practice on the ground.

SDGs impacted

SDG 14